Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics 5(2) (2016) 193--197 | DOI:10.5890/JAND.2016.06.006

Jamal-Odysseas Maaita

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract

we study a system of two linear oscillators coupled to a k-order nonlinear oscillator with a mass much smaller than the mass of the linear oscillators. We prove that the Slow Invariant Manifold of the system may bifurcate only when the order of the nonlinear oscillator is an odd number.

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